Faculty Adoptions

PLEASE SUBMIT BY THE FOLLOWING DATES:

Summer Semester: April 1st

Fall Semester: May 1st

Spring Semester: November 1st

To ensure that your materials are ordered correctly and
in a timely manner please follow the instructions included in our Course
Materials Requests E-mail, submit them online here Submit Adoptions
or email them to textoffice@ku.edu.

If you have any questions or concerns about your requisitions we would be happy to assist you!

HELPFUL HINTS FOR TEXTBOOK ADOPTIONS

LIBRARY RESOURCES:

Check the Library selection!
Information found on the
Library website is already available to Faculty and Students and can
save students and the University money. You can even place links in your
blackboard course for students to have one-click access to the articles
you want them to read.
Find library resources here: http://www.lib.ku.edu
and choose the link to the Information Gateway with ejournals,
databases of articles and more.
If you need help making a link work for
you within your Blackboard course contact the Ask-A-Librarian service http://www.lib.ku.edu/askalibrarian/.
If you do not find what you are looking for on the Library website, the
Textbook Dept at the KU Bookstores would be happy to work with you to
put together a course pack and make sure that all copyright requirements
are satisfied.

CUSTOM COURSE PACKS:

If you do not find the information you need from the KU
Libraries ejournals or want only portions of a textbook, we can work
with you to put together a custom course pack. We will make sure that
all copyrights have been approved for you. We will also double-check the
Library e-journal holdings to make sure that your students do not have
to pay for materials that are available to them for free.

BUNDLES:

When considering a bundle please evaluate the cost and
necessity of the units in the bundle. If only one item in the bundle is
required, it would be best to adopt each item individually with one as
required and the rest as optional. Adopting the entire bundles as a
required text creates frustration for students when they only want to
purchase the one mandatory item. It also prevents the bookstore from
offering used copies at a discounted price to students.

ADOPTION DEADLINES:

Adopting your textbooks by the semester deadlines allows
the bookstore to have them in stock and shelved for your students before
the first day of classes. It also allows us to purchase books from the
students at buyback time for a higher value and increases the number of
lower cost textbooks for your next semester students.